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that s paying it forward. thanks for joining us. i m tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the president s move late today, revoking the security clearance of a former cia director who spoke out against the president. the white house citing john brennan s, quote, lying and erratic behavior. and then issued a warning, a list of names of who could be next. our reporter pressing the white house late today, is the president now targeting those who question him in public? also, at this hour, the jury now set to decide the fate of paul manafort. our team in the courtroom, robert mueller s prosecutors telling the jurors to use your common sense. does it make sense that paul manafort had 31 overseas accounts that he forgot he had to report them? manafort s lawyers taking aim at rick gates. will it work? also breaking as we come on, we are just learning of a shark attack in the northeast. paramedics called to the scene. swimmers rushed from the water toni ....
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. mcgahn, the current white house council has been meeting and talking with robert mueller s team. there s also the president s former campaign chairman, still waiting for a verdict in his tax evasion and bank fraud trial. and dozens more intelligence professionals weighing in against the president removing john brennan s security clearance. his anger at least on twitter appears to be growing. bob mueller and his whole group of democrat thugs spent over 30 hours with the white house counsel, only with my approval for purposes of transparency. he then went on talking about mueller. anyone needing that much time is just someone looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people s lives and refuse to look at the real corruption on the democrats side. the lies, the firings, the deleted e-mails and so much more. mueller s angry dems are a national disgrace. the president railed against ....
all the big moments and the network s new mission. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is tuesday, august 21st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s start with the latest. conservative think tanks in the u.s. senate. united states senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. microsoft stopped the attack last week. the company took control of six web sites operated by the same group behind the 2016 dnc hack. let s bring in fred pleitgen. reporter: the organization that we re talking about, the hacking group, called fancy bear. that is the group that hacked into the dnc and hillary clinton campaign in 2016. u.s. intelligence highly likely believes this group is linked and possibly directed by russian military intelligence known as the gru. as far as the organizations and groups targeted by the attack, apparently, parts of the senate and then two think tanks. hudson institute and international republican institute. both cr ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. russia s largest arms expo set to desk plisplay the fighter je hyper sonic missile. another way they want to challenge america. guys. fascinating. fred live for us this morning in russia. thank you. three minutes past the hour. imagine a world where you and your allies are under investigation, but you get to dictate how the investigation proceeds. president trump using monday about pushing robert mueller aside and running the russia investigation himself. in an interview, the president has chosen not to get involved in the probe. he says i don t have to stay out as you know. i can go in and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want. jeff mason was on the reuters team that interviewed the president. he was out of it. it was better if he did. it is interesting. he was making it clear he viewed it as a decision and he made the decision to stay out. it wasn t the only option he had. president trump ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. the russian investigation. that s now off the table the president praising manafort as a good man, but at the same distancings from his former campaign chairman. i still feel it s a very sad thing that happens. it has nothing to do with washington collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do. it s a witch hunt. it is a disgrace. in west virginia last night the president whipped up the crowd with his attack on the special counsel. russian witch hunt. we got a whole big combination where is the tlugs? you know, they re still looking for collusion. where is the collusion? find some collusion. despite all the devastating news for the president. his supporters still revived some familiar chances at this rally last night. tomorrow, following charges from using campaign finance money for personal purchases. in one instance, buying clothing at a golf course and re reporti ....